[okfn-labs] Update on PublicBodies.org - a URL for every part of Government

Tue May 14 13:04:21 UTC 2013

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Liang

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi Shen,
>
> This is great. I've booted an issue here:
> https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies/issues/25
>
> Would it be possible for you to add a header row just in English -- it will
> make it much easier for me to take a look and integrate ;-)
>
> Rufus
>
>
> On 10 May 2013 15:06, SHEN Liang <shenzhuxi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Here is the data for China (in Chinese). It contains more information
>> than the UK example, so I'm thinking may be ckan is a better option.
>> http://ubercheckout.com/cn.csv
>>
>> Liang
>>
>> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
>> wrote:
>> > On 3 May 2013 09:55, SHEN Liang <shenzhuxi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Hi Rufus,
>> >>
>> >> Should I fork https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies, add data and make
>> >> a pull request like the normal GitHub workflow?
>> >
>> > That was my original plan but given how much data some people seem to
>> > have I'm wondering. If the file is say > 5mb i suggest posting outside
>> > of github for the moment and we do a first review there (for example,
>> > with recent discussion re Italian dataset which was ~6mb it turned out
>> > we can perhaps drop the list of every school (that's a separate useful
>> > dataset of course!).
>> >
>> >> Is http://publicbodies.org/ based on ckan? What about
>> >
>> > At the moment it is not based on CKAN because it is just a simple
>> > site, see
>> > http://okfnlabs.org/blog/2013/05/01/publicbodies.org-an-update.html
>> > for more details. I am thinking that with the amount of data coming in
>> > we may need to revisit having a db rather than flat file but we want
>> > to push it as far as we can.
>> >
>> >> http://datahub.io/dataset/uk-public-bodies?
>> >
>> > Very useful - i had forgotten about that (great data from David
>> > Pidsley!). We should try and merge this.
>> >
>> >> Can people help updating data easily?
>> >
>> > Yes, that's the idea though we could make this much better. See this
>> > open issue: https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies/issues/8
>> >
>> >> Is there any API for data query rather than JSON url and CSV download
>> >> (I think ckan has)?
>> >
>> > At the moment: no. I've made this super simple but we could easily
>> > pushed the consolidated data into the ckan datastore. I've just opened
>> > an issue for this: https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies/issues/20
>> >
>> >> BTW, I have a list of journal feeds from http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/
>> >> several years ago and they've stopped releasing it.
>> >>
>> >> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjfpjwzLd5bUdEY5MF9KUmROaW1WZklOYmoweEtZakE&usp=sharing
>> >> I'd like to have a crowdsourcing platform to keep it updating.
>> >
>> > Very interesting. As you say this is a good match for crowdcrafting.
>> >
>> >> For not so big data, Google Drive is not a bad way for crowdsourcing,
>> >> but I think OKFN should have the open source solution. Maybe
>> >> http://crowdcrafting.org/ + http://datahub.io/.
>> >
>> > That is a great idea and in fact I believe Daniel Gonzalez (in cc) is
>> > working on this (suggest we fork a thread for this).
>> >
>> > Rufus
>
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